Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Smylers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Saying C1.2.1 specifies an Iexact match on the version number, not a minimum match. To match more than one version, put a range operator in parens: +use Dog:ver(1.2.1..*); That[*0] strikes me as a common trap for the unwary. In Perl 5 if you rely on a

[perl #41738] languages/APL is broken

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #41738] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41738 Checking the languages smokes on http://smoke.parrotcode.org/smoke/ I

[perl #41739] [PATCH]: add clone method for iterators

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Eric Hanchrow # Please include the string: [perl #41739] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41739 b/CREDITS|4 b/t/pmc/iterator.t | 49

[perl #41743] [PATCH] Make all but (perl5|pugs|t) have a MAINTAINER

2007-03-08 Thread Julian Fondren
# New Ticket Created by Julian Fondren # Please include the string: [perl #41743] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41743 Some-but-not-many of the languages/ tree have MAINTAINER files. This patch makes

PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! regards, kjs

Re: PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread Julian Fondren
On 3/8/07, Klaas-Jan Stol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! I don't really have any feedback on what you have, but for what you don't have: 1. docs/compiler_faq.pod teaches

[perl #41746] [BUG] pdump doesn't build.

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #41746] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41746 $ make pdump src/packdump.c src/packdump.c: In function 'PackFile_Constant_dump':

Re: [S09] Whatever indices and shaped arrays

2007-03-08 Thread Dr.Ruud
David Green schreef: Jonathan Lang: (In fact, the semantics for @x[*+n] follows directly from the fact that an array returns the count of its elements in scalar context.) And @x[*] would be the same as @x[0..^*] or @x[0..(*-1)]. That's an elegance in its favour. In Perl5 a + can creep in,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Smylers
Andreas J. Koenig writes: $spot:Inconsistent:(parens) On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:38:17 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authcpan:JRANDOM; +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authhttp://www.some.com/~jrandom; +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
$spot:Inconsistent:(parens) On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:38:17 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authcpan:JRANDOM; +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authhttp://www.some.com/~jrandom; +class Dog:ver1.2.1:authmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; +class Dog:1.2.1 cpan:JRANDOM

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:21:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) said: $spot:Inconsistent:(parens) Please accept my apologies for my ignorant posting. Clearly the parens indicate ranges. Sorry for the noise. Going back into lurker-mode, -- andreas

[perl #41733] invoke :vtable - execution stops

2007-03-08 Thread Matt Diephouse via RT
On Wed Mar 07 17:02:47 2007, mdiep wrote: This gets us close to what I want: void* invoke(void *next) { STRING *meth = CONST_STRING(interp, __invoke); STRING *meth_v = CONST_STRING(interp, invoke); PMC *sub = Parrot_find_vtable_meth(interp, pmc, meth_v);

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:05:32AM +, Smylers wrote: : So I fear that people will do the same thing in Perl 6. Which, : initially, will appear to work. But then, some months later, somebody : upgrades the installed version of a module (or the program gets deployed : on another computer,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14319 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +So these are in sorted version order: + +1.2.0.999 +1.2.1_01 +1.2.1_2 +1.2.1_003 +1.2.1a1 +1.2.1.alpha1 +1.2.1b1 +1.2.1.beta1 +1.2.1.gamma +1.2.1α1 +1.2.1β1 +1.2.1γ +

Re: [perl #41743] [PATCH] Make all but (perl5|pugs|t) have a MAINTAINER

2007-03-08 Thread Jerome Quelin
On 07/03/08 01:10 -0800, Julian Fondren wrote: [...] Index: languages/ook/MAINTAINER === --- languages/ook/MAINTAINER (revision 0) +++ languages/ook/MAINTAINER (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +N: Jerome Quelini +E: [EMAIL

C pmclass - parrot object inheritance, interaction vtables/methods/object identities

2007-03-08 Thread Mehmet Yavuz Selim Soyturk
Hello, I'm implementing ECMAscript (javascript) which has prototype based inheritance. An object is some sort of hash which has some properties. An object can have a prototype, from which it inherits all of the properties. And the objects prototype can also have a prototype, from which the

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14320 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Mar 8 10:32:50 2007 New Revision: 14320 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: Further clarification of version syntax as requested by geoff++ and others. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14321 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Mar 8 10:45:10 2007 New Revision: 14321 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarification suggested by obra++. v-style now allows * and + wildcards for convenience. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[perl #41749] [TODO] deprecate substr_r op

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #41749] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41749 from src/ops/string.ops: =item Bsubstr_r(out STR, in STR, in INT, in INT) Make $1

Re: [perl #41749] [TODO] deprecate substr_r op

2007-03-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2007 20:25 schrieb Jerry Gay: either move this to experimental.ops, or remove it entirely. i vote to remove it. we don't need temporary hacks as core ops. $ find . -name '*.pir' | xargs grep substr_r ... ./examples/shootout/revcomp.pir:$S0 = substr_r line, i, 60

[perl #41569] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
Hi, Could someone please tell me the expected result of t/distro/file_metadata.pl at revision 17389? After looking into bug #41569 I'm getting the following on Windows (XP, SP2, VC++ 8.0, Subversion). prove t/distro/file_metadata.t t/distro/file_metadata# Collecting svn:mime-type

[perl #25253] [PATCH] Remove Parrot_INTERP

2007-03-08 Thread Jerry Gay via RT
chromatic~ embed/extend is up your alley. do you see a problem with removing Parrot_INTERP since we've already got Parrot_Interp laying around? even though this patch is about three years old, it looks almost valid, and should be quick and easy to apply, if approved. ~jerry

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread David Green
On 3/8/07, Smylers wrote: In Perl 5 if you rely on a feature (or bugfix) from a particular version of a module you can specify that version and the code will continue to work with future versions -- which is a reasonably pragmatic approach, effectively saying until proven otherwise I'll

Module versions (was Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2007-03-08 Thread David Green
On 3/8/07, Larry Wall wrote: Perl 6 is specced to keep all the old versions of modules around in the library (unless the new version claims to emulate the old version). Oh, good! So how does a module say that it emulates another version? (Or perhaps another module altogether...) Does does

Re: Module versions (was Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2007-03-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:57:00PM -0700, David Green wrote: : On 3/8/07, Larry Wall wrote: : Perl 6 is specced to keep all the old versions of modules around in : the library (unless the new version claims to emulate the old version). : : Oh, good! So how does a module say that it emulates

[perl #41753] [CAGE] better document and test PMETHOD and PMINVOKE

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #41753] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41753 c-level support for parrot calling conventions (PMETHOD) and for calling C methods

Re: PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread James E Keenan
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! I am very glad to see this. One suggestion and one request for clarification: 1. First bullet point in FAQ should be: What does PIR stand

Re: [perl #41569] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
I expect the first two to pass, but metadata is often often overlooked on commits. The last one is a new test, not everything has been updated yet. (And I'm not sure it *can* be without breaking windows). Should be passing the second test again as of r17398. On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:23 PM,

[perl #41750] [PATCH] Pynie updates

2007-03-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #41750] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41750 hi, attached a patch for pynie: * fixed rule for floatingpoints and

S03 regexp nit

2007-03-08 Thread Thom Boyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == ... +Alternately, you can increment a submatch: + +$filename ~~ s[^.* (\w+) \.\w+$] = $().succ; + Don't you want the leading .* to be

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14322 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-08 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Mar 8 19:16:14 2007 New Revision: 14322 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: overgreedy .* noted by thom++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod